Adobe created the Portable Document Format, but that doesn't mean the company's Acrobat suite of products is the best. This week, we want to hear about your favorite tool for PDF creation, editing, and/or viewing?

We've previously showcased the five best PDF readers and the top choice from that Hive Five, PDF-XChange, but now it's time to update the category to include applications that let you do more with this open-source, multi-platform format.

Adobe's free PDF reader has long been a standard for handling its extremely popular document…
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PDF utilities available today enable you to do just about everything with PDFs, from viewing them quickly, to creating them (via built-in printing, for example, in Mac OS X and Office software), converting to and from other file formats, merging or splitting the electronic documents, and more. Of all the options out there: What's your favorite PDF tool? (You could have a couple of favorites—one for PDF viewing and another for PDF converting, for example, but which would you recommend the most? If you can't decide, we won't mind if you vote more than once.)

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To nominate your pick for the best overall PDF tool, leave a new comment below (not a reply) with the text "VOTE: [PDF tool]".

We'll round up the votes and report back with the top five recommendations this Sunday. Photo by James Fee.

About the Hive Five: The Hive Five feature series asks readers to answer the most frequently asked question we get: "Which tool is the best?" Once a week we'll put out a call for contenders looking for the best solution to a certain problem, then YOU tell us your favorite tools to get the job done. Every weekend, we'll report back with the top five recommendations and give you a chance to vote on which is best. Last week's Hive Five focused on the Five Best Browser Security Extensions
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